Tina Turner - Steel Claw lyrics

A night in television wonderland

Just one more

Fairy tale about some rich bitch

Lying by the swimming pool

It's golden school

Living's easy when you make the rules

Last Friday was the first time

It took only about half a minute

On the stairway

It was child's play

The odds turn out even

When you give up believing in the...

Cold law, steel claw

Try to get on board you find the lock is on the door

Well I say 'No way

Don't try to keep me out or there'll be hell to pay'

I don't know who's right or who's wrong

But it doesn't really matter when you're lying in the gutter

It's a see-saw

A long hot battle with the cold law

Is what you get for messing with the steel claw

The politicians have forgotten this place

Except for a flying visit in a black Mercedes

No election time

They cross the line

And everybody runs to watch the pantomine

If they could see what's going on around here

So many people hanging on the edge

Crying out for revolution

Retribution

The odds turn out even

When you give up believing in the...

Cold law, steel claw

Try to get on board you find the lock is on the door

Well I say 'No way

Don't try to keep me out or there'll be hell to pay'

I don't know who's right or who's wrong

But it doesn't really matter when you're lying in the gutter

It's a see-saw

A long hot battle with the cold law

Is what you get for messing with the steel claw

Sometimes I think I'm going crazy

Sometimes I do a line

Makes me laugh

Makes me want to take a joyride

On the high tide

Sometimes I'm contemplating suicide

Meanwhile Eddy's on the West Coast

He's making out with some sweet senorita

Up in Frisco you and I know

The odds turn out even

When you give up believing...

Cold law, steel claw

Try to get on board you find the lock is on the door

Well I say 'No way

Don't try to keep me out or there'll be hell to pay'

I don't know who's right or who's wrong

But it doesn't really matter when you're lying in the gutter

It's a see-saw

A long hot battle with the cold law

Is what you get for messing with the steel claw